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PEN America & Catapult Present the Best Debut Short Stories of 2019

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Let’s Party at AWP 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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PEN America at the 2019 AWP Conference and Bookfair

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – Saturday, March 30, 2019 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018

Book Launch: PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018

Monday, September 24, 2018 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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A Slim Anthology that Encompasses Worlds: PEN America Debut Short Stories 2017

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By: Michelle Ming Xu | September 13, 2017

Hours later and several stories in, it became a process of cheating myself: “The next story is only six pages.” “It’s only 2am.” “The next one will only take…” More

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PEN America & Catapult Present the Best Debut Short Stories of 2017

Friday, September 15, 2017 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Amber Caron

August 4, 2017

On August 22, Catapult will publish PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, the inaugural edition of an anthology celebrating outstanding new fiction writers published by literary magazines around… More

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